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IIM Calcutta summer placements: Big triumph for students as 100 per cent placements achieved in just 48 hrs

IM Calcutta summer placements: Big triumph for students as 100 per cent placements achieved in just 48 hrs

The business school located in Joka, Kolkata has witnessed 100% placement for the 2019 batch in a little over 2 days.

IIM Calcutta summer placements: The first Indian Institute of Management to be established, IIM Calcutta has set a new benchmark. The business school located in Joka, Kolkata has witnessed 100 per cent placement for the 2019 batch in a little over two days. More than 180 firms offered profiles across diverse sectors for the summer placements. The institute witnessed a number of Consulting, Management and Manufacturing companies making impressive offers for the students. A total of 188 offers amounting to 41 per cent of the total batch were from finance and consulting sectors. Among them, Goldman Sachs, an American multinational finance company, made the highest number of offers in finance while The Boston Consulting Group was the top recruiter in consulting in terms of the number of students hired. Other major sectors from where the students got maximum offers include marketing, general management, E-commerce, operations and product management. Top brands like Coke, Uber and Aditya Birla Group were the top recruiters in marketing, operations and general management respectively.

It was for the first time that the government think-tank NITI Aayog participated in the summer placement process. The government body also made five offers, as per a statement released by the institute. As many as five private equity firms and seven investment banking firms also participated in the placement process.